tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5976686513564131325.post6503245714206590697..comments2024-03-17T15:34:05.492-06:00Comments on MPECS Inc. Blog: SBS - New User Workstation Setup ChecklistPhilip Elder Cluster MVPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06082028960643490292noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5976686513564131325.post-17425330920027017732008-05-12T11:22:00.000-06:002008-05-12T11:22:00.000-06:00You are welcome.Not being much of a coder beyond b...You are welcome.<BR/><BR/>Not being much of a coder beyond basic scripts and batches, there may be a way.<BR/><BR/>To date I have not found a way to automate much of the process.<BR/><BR/>We always setup our Group Policies to be integrated with the SBS wizards as much as we can. This helps to automate things like access and security settings.<BR/><BR/>Roaming profiles on SBS has always been a bit of a headache. At a former employer we had one client that used them for that purpose: Moving from machine to machine. But, they ended up supporting them (2 on site techs) more than they worked in my opinion.<BR/><BR/>My Docs redirection takes the bulk of it along with Exchange/Outlook intergration. Beyond that there is always enabling the full profile to redirect, SharePoint, Exchange Public Folders, Groove, and folder shares to take care of any data access needs.<BR/><BR/>As far as Office, we have integrated the ADMs for Office 2003 at pretty much all of our clients. Office GPs do give us the ability to manage a lot, but not the initial setup steps. That little name and initials prompt has to be answered by the user the first time. Yes, I missed the Office Experience one!<BR/><BR/>For critical laptops we have implemented ShadowProtect to stream a backup to the backup server during the day. For the most part it works well and gives us some grandfathering of the data.<BR/><BR/>For Exchange SMTP and POP3Connector we setup a two tiered structure where SMTP to SBS Exchange is the first MX option with the ISP's email servers being MX option two+. If SBS goes down then no email will be lost.<BR/><BR/>Hosting companies are varied. We have had success with <A HREF="http://www.digitaltea.com/Hosting-Services.htm" REL="nofollow">Digital Tea</A> and for our more global clients <A HREF="http://www.netfronts.com/" REL="nofollow">NetFronts</A>.<BR/><BR/>Thanks,<BR/><BR/>PhilipPhilip Elder Cluster MVPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06082028960643490292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5976686513564131325.post-69113228819502552792008-05-11T20:16:00.000-06:002008-05-11T20:16:00.000-06:00Philip: As always, thanks for taking the time to ...Philip: As always, thanks for taking the time to blog and help us naive techs out there!<BR/><BR/>Loads of questions about this one:<BR/><BR/>How much time do you budget for all of this?<BR/><BR/>This is very manual and always thought there has to be a way to do some of these things via group policy. No? Adding user initials in Word? Opt out of the Office experience icon down by the clock (you don't mention that one)<BR/><BR/>Copy favorites and desktop - you are not a fan of roaming profiles (that would solve that, right?. what if they save the mission critical file on the desktop. Out of luck? Backing up their 100's of favorites?)<BR/><BR/>Setup pop3 - do you entertain tht as a viable ongoing way to deal with mail (so they'd be using an outside / email hosting service, right?) Any recommendation on which hosting company? Why not have exchange do all the mail?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com